Scam Diets: Low-Carb, No Carb, and “Carbs Are Bad”

Scam Diets: Low-Carb, No Carb, and Carbs Are Bad

If somebody tells you that all carbs are bad for you, don’t listen. They don’t know what they’re talking about. They’ve fallen for the Atkins-style low-carb scam diet.

The prominent advice in medicine today: stay away from products with refined grain and products with added sugar. Also, eat lots of vegetables.

The key: refined grain carbs are bad. On the other hand, whole grain carbs are good.

You should be eating whole grain carbs. Plenty of them.

Things that could happen when people don’t eat whole grain carbs:

1. Your memory won’t be as sharp.(1)

A study at Tufts University removed carbs from participants’ diets. The result: poorer memory-based task performance. When carbs were reintroduced into participants’ diets, memory-based task performance returned to normal.